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First Poster Is Here For Danny Boyle’s 28 YEARS LATER

The highly anticipated and long-awaited 3rd film in the 28 DAYS LATER series debuts next summer.

Opening in cinemas on June 20, 2025 is 28 YEARS LATER and Sony Pictures has dropped the first poster for the film starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell. The film is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.

Both 28 DAYS LATER and 28 WEEKS LATER were box office successes. Danny Boyle’s 2002 sleeper hit grossed $64,232,714 worldwide. It starred Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson. The “Rage Virus” origin story made BRAVO’s 100th spot on their list of ‘The 100 Scariest Movie Moments’ in a four-episode 2004 television series.

Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s follow-up took in $65,048,725 globally. Twenty eight weeks after a virus has wiped out all human life in the UK, the island is declared safe, and people start to move back, only to be attacked by thousands who have been infected by a new airborne version of the rage virus. The film starred Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots and Idris Elba.

Read The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 terrific piece on 28 DAYS LATER’s “ability to make zombies terrifying.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/have-get-a-quiet-place-killed-zombie-genre-1121491/.

DAWN OF THE DEAD, ZOMBIELAND, WORLD WAR Z, TRAIN TO BUSAN, WARM BODIES, and SHAUN OF THE DEAD are perfect examples of how 28 DAYS LATER influenced the zombie genre. It was cool to LOVE zombie films. It still is. THE WALKING DEAD and THE LAST OF US are super successful, with no signs of stopping.

An announced fourth installment of the series, 28 YEARS LATER PART II: THE BONE TEMPLE, was shot back-to-back with 28 YEARS LATER, directed by Nia DaCosta, with Boyle and Garland returning as writers and producers and Murphy reprising his role.

Fox Atomic No More

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Amazingly enough, when I was doing my article a few weeks back on everything 20th Century Fox was doing wrong, lately, I totally side-stepped the whole Fox Atomic angle.   It wasn’t concious.   I just didn’t think about them.

Apparently, Fox didn’t think much of the division, either, because word came down yesterday that Fox Atomic was closing its doors.   The division, formed in 2006, was in the business of   releasing films that were geared more towards the teen audience.   Hence the release of such horror films as ‘Turistas’ and ‘The Hills Have Eyes 2’ and comedies like ‘The Rocker’ and ‘The Comebacks.’   The last film Fox Atomic released was the John Cena-vehicle ’12 Rounds,’ which has pulled in $11 million in its 27-day release period.

’12 Rounds’ is just the latest in Fox Atomic releases that have fallen short both financially and critically.   Last Year’s ‘The Rocker’ made $8 million domestic off of a $15 million budget.   The only “succesful” film Fox Atomic put out was ’28 Weeks Later…’ which raked in $64 million worldwide.   A scheduled third film in that series, ’28 Months Later…,’ will more than likely still get made just under the 20th Century Fox or Fox Searchlight umbrella.

Fox Atomic had two films on the slate for release in 2009, ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper’ and ‘Jennifer’s Body.’   Both were poised to be Fox Atomic’s biggest hits, the former a high school comedy directed by Chris Columbus and starring Heroes star Hayden Panettiere and the latter a horror film written by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox.   Both of these will, like ’28 Months Later…,’ likely be moved over to Fox Searchlight.

Despite the lack of good films coming out of Fox Atomic, the division did have a pretty good eye for marketing.   Granted, two of those three posters above are identical twins of each other, but they are both effective.   The trailer marketing for ‘The Hills Have Eyes 2’ was among the best in 2007, but that film didn’t deliver in any way, shape, or form.

Word of Fox Atomic’s closing comes from Variety.   The studio could not be reached for comment.

Source: Variety

Keira Knightley to Star in Mark Romanek Thriller

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I don’t know which news is more important here, the fact that Keira Knightley has signed on to star in the new thriller from Mark Romanek or the mere fact that Romanek is directing a new film. Â  The director of ‘One Hour Photo’ was attached to helm the new ‘Wolf Man’ film, but left due to budget disagreements. Â  Now, he and Knightley are teaming up to make ‘Never Let Me Go’, a sci-fi thriller for Fox Searchlight.

The story revolves around  a trio who grew up in a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover they are clones grown for the sole purpose of organ donation.

Alex Garland (’28 Days Later…’ and ‘Sunshine’) wrote the screenplay, and, other than that, the story doesn’t sound interesting at all. Â  It sounds way too much like ‘The Island’, but, with Garland behind the screenplay and Romanek behind the camera, I’m sure the film will have its fair share of surprises.

The film begins production in April in England.

Source: Variety

Danny Boyle Asked About ‘Alien 4’, ‘Lady Vengeance’, ’28 Days Later…’ Sequel, and More

‘Slumdog Millionare’ director Danny Boyle recently sat down with Empire Online to do a Q&A with the readers of the site. Â  Here are just a few samples of the more interesting subjects broached:

ON DIRECTING ‘ALIEN 4’:

“Oh my God, that one. Very close actually. In fact I met Sigourney and Winona, which was a great pleasure. Had chips – French fries I should say – with Winona. But I backed out of it. I was terrified of the special effects.”

ON JUMPING FROM ‘SUNSHINE’ TO ‘SLUMDOG’:

“Bits of ‘Slumdog’ are quite dark early on. It’s not quite the feelgood movie of the decade all the way through. But the contrast between the isolation of outer space and the 21+ million inhabitants of Mumbai was welcome.”

ON CHOOSING MUSIC FOR HIS MOVIES:

“It’s critical for me. Music is more important than anything in a way. Music is the final effect you have on the film before it goes out.”

ON FILMING IN MUMBAI:

“Oh my God. A lot of people said it was going to be very difficult and frustrating. And I think if you go there thinking that, it is. But the 21+ million people give you the chance to do something different. And if you think of it like that, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ‘SLUMDOG’ AND Q&A, THE BOOK IT WAS BASED ON:

“It’s very different. Simon Beaufoy (‘The Full Monty’) hijacked the central concept – a slum kid goes on the big game show – and ran with it in his own way. So the love story was invented, to become the real spine of the film, rather than the show being the spine, as it is in the novel.”

ON THE NEXT INSTALLMENT IN THE ’28…LATER…’ FRANCHISE:

“Yeah, we’ve got a good idea for the third one. Very strange. And sadly we’ve run out of time to tell you about it…”

ON DIRECTING A SUPERHERO MOVIE:

“No. Not a great fan of superhero movies. We need those extremes of storytelling, but are reluctant to use them in anything other than fantasy movies. I think that’s a bit sad.”

ON ‘PORNO’, THE SEQUEL TO ‘TRAINSPOTTING’:

“Just waiting for the original actors to age. Help them if you can. Take them out drinking – get them away from the spas and those moisturisers.”

ON ‘LADY VENGEANCE’:

“Seriously, I was just asked to do a remake of Lady Vengeance, the one after Oldboy. My favourite is Audition.”

ON EDITING HIS FILMS:

“If you hire a good editor, you’ve got to let them edit the film, and you come in and assess what they’ve done. Give pointers, you know. It’s a clichà © that no-one is proud of, but filmmaking is a collaborative process. As director, you steal other people’s skills and get the credit for it.”

ON WHETHER HE’D RATHER WIN AN OSCAR OR SEE BURY WITH THE F.A. CUP:

“Bury and the FA Cup. Come on, no contest!”

Check out the full interview over at Empire Online.

Source: Empire Online

Danny Boyle to Direct ’28 Months Later’?

MTV news recently caught up with director Danny Boyle about the third film in the ’28 Days Later’ franchise.   The director was more than optimistic.

“There’s a bit of discussion going on about it at the moment,† Boyle said.   “I have an idea for it [but] I’ve got to present it and see what people think really because it might be silly really.†

Boyle went onto say that the setting of the third film would be kept secret, as discovering it would be “part of the joy of it, really.”   When asked if he would direct, he simply said, “It was a possibility.”

Boyle’s next, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, opens in late November and just took home the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

source: MTV.com